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Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:30:00 +0100
Local dancer graduates from Cambridge dance studio
Julia Vella Rosso recently graduated from Bodywork Company Dance Studios in Cambridge, UK, following a three-year course of studies that led to her first degree in performing arts. She started off in the art of dance as a toddler, an...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:22:00 +0100
‘Maltese are very welcome in Sicily ­‒ for the right reasons’
Maltese tourists in Sicily have hit the headlines on the Sicilian media. It was reported that over 2,000 passengers disembarked at Pozzallo from the two Virtu Ferries catamarans, the MV Saint John Paul II and MV Jean de la Valette, f...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0100
IFT-Malta holds 2021 graduation ceremony for several cohorts of students
The Institute of Family Therapy-Malta (IFT-Malta) recently celebrated the graduation of a number of its students who followed studies with the institute over the past years. These students furthered their training with IFT-Malta in o...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0100
Storytelling project aims to improve student literacy teaching skills
Educators from six schools from Malta, Iceland, Ireland, Slovenia and Turkey are taking part in an Erasmusplus project entitled ‘Building on Opportunities for Story-Telling’ (Boost) aimed at improving their ability to raise their...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0100
Poetic tales of a dreamy Mediterranean idyll
Mediterranean Dreams is the title of KENNETH ZAMMIT TABONA’s current exhibition. He talks to Joseph Agius about finding and deciphering beauty, and painting it Kenneth Zammit Tabona. Photo: Lisa Attard JA: The title of your current...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0100
OK Medical donates motorised bed to ALS Malta
OK Medical, a leading supplier of medical equipment and hospital supplies servicing both the private and public sector, has donated a brand new motorised bed to help a neurological patient. The bed was presented to Bjorn Formosa, fou...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0100
Cameroon dream of title at home as Cup of Nations kicks off
Fifty years after last hosting the Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon kick off the continental showpiece on Sunday targeting a sixth title while hoping the spectre of the coronavirus does not overshadow the tournament. Cameroon, who pla...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0100
The spread of fake news and misinformation
Back in 2015, as a response against Russian cyber threats the European Commission presented a Code of Practice on Disinformation. Major online platforms including Facebook, Google and Twitter and other stakeholders signed this docume...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0100
Myth Debunked: Goldfish are better drivers than you!
Goldfish have long been pigeonholed as the idiots of the freshwater world, allegedly with short-term memory loss and poor cognitive abilities, despite their unnervingly bloated heads. These assumptions are now being challenged, follo...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:56:00 +0100
Man injured in Żejtun accident
A 26-year-old man was grievously injured on Saturday in a traffic accident in Żejtun. The police said on Sunday the accident happened in Triq Toni Zahra at around 8pm. The man, who is Indian, was riding a Sym Symphony that was invol...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:43:00 +0100
European People’s Party ‘acknowledges role of nuclear energy as low-carbon tech'
The European People’s Party has acknowledged the role nuclear energy can play as a low-carbon technology in the national energy mix. It said it supported it“provided sufficient provisions are made for the highest safety standards...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:26:00 +0100
Editorial: Why was Paulina Dembska killed?
The new year in Malta started with a barbaric murder that shook society to the core. A 29-year-old woman was raped and murdered in one of Malta’s most popular pedestrian spots. Unlike other murders, police investigations suggest th...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:19:00 +0100
Malta BNI to host business briefing on leading more effectively
The pandemic has dramatically increased the speed of change in workforce dynamics. And as advancements in artificial intelligence continue to make rapid progress, leaders and individuals need to focus more on the human element of the...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:18:00 +0100
Towards age-friendly communities
The biggest challenge gerontologists are presently facing is to incorporate the phenomenon of ageing in society and keeping our older persons as independent and integrated in society as possible. For citizens to be as active as possi...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:18:00 +0100
Army clearing roads to snow-bound Pakistan town after deadly blizzard
Pakistan rescuers were working Sunday to clear routes to a locked-in hill town sheltering thousands of tourists after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow. The resort town of Murree, around 70 kilometres northeast of Isla...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:06:00 +0100
Djokovic readies vaccine exemption case for Australian visa showdown
Tennis world number one Novak Djokovic readied his legal guns Sunday for a battle to stay in Melbourne and defend his Australian Open title, arguing he has the all-clear because of a positive coronavirus test in December. Djokovicâ€...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0100
Valletta street hygiene in early British Malta
A manic flurry of legislation marked the first 30 years of British rule in Malta; most of it well-meaning, some of it effective, part of it self-serving. For over the first half a century of British rule, the new monarchs retained th...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0100
A fruitful year for the eSkills Malta Foundation
2021 was somewhat overshadowed by COVID-19. It was a year where priorities changed for everyone – for our partners, stakeholders, organisations and their respective owners and employees. Notwithstanding all this, the eSkills Malta ...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:39:00 +0100
‘My attacker was strangling me before trying to rape me’
Paulina Dembska’s brutal murder rekindled the ordeal that FIONA CAUCHI herself went through 30 years ago. She tells Mark Laurence Zammit it is important for victims to speak up to find their peace. Every morning as a schoolgirl, Fi...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:37:00 +0100
Italy star Insigne inks four-year MLS deal with Toronto
Italy international Lorenzo Insigne has signed a four-year deal to join Major League Soccer’s Toronto FC from Napoli on July 1, the Canadian club announced Saturday. The 30-year-old forward and Napoli captain will move in the midd...



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